Jiang Wen Quotes
Other people's films are like a cocktail, a little alcohol with water and juice. My films are like pure vodka.
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When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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We just here to do our job.
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Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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What the 'supposed 99 percent' don't realize is that they are better off if there are more fat cats, not less.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up. It's acceptable to ridicule the Pope or the President of the United States, but God forbid you do a joke... about gays. The gay community is the last sacred cow in this society.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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I love the Olympics.
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Every batch of sperm represents an opportunity for genetic typos - called de novo mutations - to be passed on. A 20-year-old man and woman will each pass on about 20 de novo mutations to a baby they conceive. By the time the couple is 40, a woman's total has remained at 20, while a man's has jumped to 65 - and it keeps climbing from there.
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It's as if once you hit high school, you're programmed, like a robot, to be an asshole to your parents.
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Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn't mean that they're well-made sheets. Truly, the quality of the cotton and the quality of the way something is woven is much more important than thread count.
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That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.
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Other people's films are like a cocktail, a little alcohol with water and juice. My films are like pure vodka.
